Peru's president announced Friday that Yale University has agreed to return thousands of artifacts taken away from the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu nearly a century ago.

At the height of its dominion, the Inca empire held sway over much of western South America—from the jagged spine of the Peruvian Andes to the sunbaked deserts of northern Chile. To traverse the ...

The find includes some 60,000 artifacts--including textiles, wooden implements, pottery and burial gifts--that will provide a wealth of new information about the short-lived Inca empire.

Peruvian gas workers made an astonishing discovery beneath the ancient streets of Lima this week — uncovering eight mummies and a number of Pre-Inca artifacts. “We are recovering those leaves ...

The artifacts included ear-ornaments called orejeras, rattles, looms, spindles, as well as ceramics from all over the realm. ... well before the Inca empire’s 13th century rise.

In a breakthrough discovery, archaeologists have unearthed a hidden labyrinth beneath the historic city of Cusco, Peru, confirming centuries-old rumors of a labyrinth stretching beneath the ancient ...

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (AP) - Yale University announced Friday that it will send back to Peru thousands of Incan artifacts removed from the famed Machu Picchu citadel nearly a century ago.

Digging History 500-year-old Inca offering discovered in lake that may have been used for human sacrifices The discovery was made by archaeologists in the Bolivian part of Lake Titicaca ...

Researchers have long wondered whether some twisted and knotted cords from the Inca Empire, which ran from 1400 to 1532, ... Many scholars suspect that these textile artifacts, ...

LIMA, Peru — Peru’s president announced Friday that Yale University has agreed to return thousands of artifacts taken away from the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu nearly a century ago.